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Jake Time and Break Time.

I’m off to Montana for the week so I’ll be unplugged. My first travel adventure since my knee surgery. Fingers crossed! Once I get up on a horse I believe I can stay on.

Here is the Jake and Carly Gallery. Enjoy! Much love to all, Julia

Jake tempts Carly with his rubber ball.

Try to get it…

Carly goes for his head instead.

Tired best friends.

I actually had a difficult time taking photos because fog kept rolling in and out. Once we had sunshine there was so much glare I could only make out Jake’s e...

Julia’s award-winning totally addictive tuna salad.

Long line tuna.

I’m actually famous for this award-winning tuna salad (and my chicken salad), so you allare special snowflakes!

2 6-oz cans of solid packed albacore tuna – drained

1 8-oz package of full-fat cream cheese

3 sticks celery – chopped

1-2 large dill pickles – chopped

4-5 small sweet gherkins – chopped

1/2 small sweet onion or 1/4 large sweet onion (a Vidalia or Walla Walla) – chopped

Mayonnaise or Miracle Whip to taste

(Occasionally I toss ina handful of chopped walnuts and a couple chopped...

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, by Laura Hillenbrand

Unbroken is the story of Louis Zamperini, a nameI’d never heard before I read his obituary.(Neither had Oscar, and he knows everything there is to know about sports.)

The demographics.

Louis Zamperini died recently, at the age of 97. He was a juvenile delinquent, an unlikely Olympianwho appeared at the 1936 Berlin Olympics where he met Hitler, a bombardier on a B-24 fighting against the Japaneseafter Pearl Harbor. His plane was shot down. He and the pilot survived 47 days in a life raft without...

Jake’s got a girlfriend!

Jake is smittenwitha Rottie! A very cute and sexy Rottie! Her name is Carly and she is the only dog Jake will roll over for. As in roll over on his back and let her have her way with him. He first met her when they were puppies and he’s never forgotten her. We recently hooked up again- by accident. Both of us ended up at the same park, a large park that stretches along the river. Has a minimum of foxtails. I’d been avoiding the park, as had Carly’s owner, because the ticks were so awful last...

Three! Free! Three Free Books In One!

Ghosts? Guardians? Archangels? Transmigration of Souls?

Incorporeal: As much as she wishes otherwise, Sara Wise sees ghosts. When a five hundred year old incorporeal being appears in her shower she orders him to leave, but he refuses. Sara knows he’s not her usual spectral visitor. Is Nathan de Manua a ghost? Her guardian angel? As her feelings for this incorporeal being grow, so do his powers. Will Nathan save Sara, or will her love redeem his tortured soul?

In the Flesh: In the middle of a bl...

Nutrition misinformation – Supplements.

The following statement will probably piss you off:

Vitamins and most nutritional supplements provideno proven long-term health benefit. In fact, some vitamins taken in isolation can cause disease. Vitamin E is a good example. Vitamin E, once the darling of the supplement set, has been shown to increase the risk of developing cancer andheart disease.

Yikes!

Whoa. Feels good to get that off my chest!

Some food-based products may be helpful, such askrill oil andfish oil – which provide Omega 3 fatt...

Larcenous Peach Pie. The Pleasure of Stolen Plums.

Peach Pie.

Whatever is wrong with people? Why would you plant a peach tree and then let the peaches rot? Seriously. Peaches are summergold to me so if you plant a peach tree and you don’t plan to pick the peaches, I will. And in addition to flat out eating the peaches, I will make peach pie, peach cobbler and peach jam. See here:

Peach Jam.

On my walks with Jake we’ve come across unharvested and rotting peaches and plums.I don’t get it. This is food. People pay big money for this kind of food. A...

Heraclitus, my new favorite philosopher.

Heraclitus of Ephesus.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is need to develop good character.

Heraclitus of Ephesus, 535 B.C. – 475 B.C.

You could not step twice into the same river.

Heraclitus of Ephesus

He who does not expect will not find the unexpected.

Heraclitus of Ephesus

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A Juvenile Peregrine Falcon.

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